Windy Night

Friday's nice afternoon trade winds seemed to lose out to hot, sticky, still weather. One of those afternoons that you just know if you give into a refreshing shower that the refreshing feeling would end as soon as the shower and you would return to being sticky.  Not an afternoon that brings to mind nice sleeping weather.

Clothes Line Moringa Tree

But then a few rain drops....and Cory yelling prepare for wind. Doors banged shut as we scurried to take picture frames containing glass off the walls, pull the couch away from the big window, pin curtains to the bars in the windows and forgot to remove the shampoos from the bathroom windowsill. BAM!

Anna asked if a hurricane hit. No just a short violent local thunderstorm. In addition to the wind preparation we also unplugged everything in the house, grabbed flashlights and threw the switch-disconnecting the electricity to the House of Hope and the Dearest  House [both unoccupied at this time].

Wind Damaged Banana Plants

Thankfully the report on Saturday revealed that no local homes received any damage. Thank you Lord. But two of our Moringa trees lost their tops [we enjoyed some Moringa leaves for lunch on Saturday] and one took out the main stem of the Jujube tree on it's way down. Despite being located under the tree limbs none of the baby breadfruit trees received any damage.

After cleaning up the area near our clothes line Cory checked for further damage. As expected some banana plants went down. Because they contain only soft plant material not wood, winds can easily knock over these plants. A few palm fronds were liberated at the same time.

Small Breadfruit Trees

Need to add to our Moringa information the danger of letting the tree get too tall. We could of avoided this by eating more Moringa leaves!

Today the Pastor talked about what we need during the troubles [storms] of life: Patience and prayer. God will save us in His own time. We just need to pray and be patient.

Thankful: limited storm damage.
Prayer: Schools preparing to start first of October.